Posts in Tech in the Workplace
Team Building online: Dealing with Zoom Fatigue

With our online, virtual escape rooms, we use Zoom as our platform to deliver the vent. However, with everyone glued to their screens all day and in meetings, Zoom fatigue is becoming a real issue. We’ve taken great lengths to make sure that whilst you are looking at a screen, the experience is far from a standard “zoom meeting”, but even if you’re not working with us, how do you make sure you’re not burning out?

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Team Building Online - Why it's needed now more than ever

With the circumstance we find ourselves in, we’re able to break down the barriers of normal “meetings”, use the platforms in a new, fun and dynamic way and create an environment that allows colleagues to build relationships and connection through an engaging shared experience. It’s creating a change to the normal day-to-day procedures and allowing employees to let their hair down.

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Team Building: Discovering the key to team success

“We’ve found that three of Hackman’s conditions—a compelling direction, a strong structure, and a supportive context—continue to be particularly critical to team success. In fact, today those three requirements demand more attention than ever. But we’ve also seen that modern teams are vulnerable to two corrosive problems—“us versus them” thinking and incomplete information. Overcoming those pitfalls requires a fourth critical condition: a shared mindset.”

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Team Building using video content to improve learning results

“Forrester Research estimates one minute of online video equates to approximately 1.8 million written words. In addition, 90 percent of information transmitted to the brain is visual, and visuals are processed 60,000 times faster in the brain than text. This indicates visual education aids like video can improve learning styles and increase the rate at which we retain information.”

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Team Building with tech and video content

Age isn’t as big a driver of tech resistance as many people believe, says Gerald Kane, lead author of “The Technology Fallacy,” a book based on a four-year survey of 16,000 participants with Deloitte and MIT Sloan Management Review. Some 76% of people in their 50s say it’s very important to work for an employer that is a technology leader.

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